Here's the complaint that the Sofitel chambermaid filed against the New York Post today. It's very short, and it only elaborates the Post's statements; it makes no mention of the paper's reporting or its attempts to verify facts, so they're not bothering to make claims of reckless disregard, going straight with defamation per se, which is… one way to do this. Hmm. Still I would say the defense is going to have an extremely hard time defending their assertion that her union assigned her to the hotel because she'd bring in the best hooker money there! Man! (via)

With regard to this tale of allegedly trading free dental work for placement in the New York Observer's weekly "Playground" supplement, all anyone wants to know is: exactly how much dental work could possibly be worth $45,000? (We're thinking the allegedly backroom deal-undoer has either eight gap-toothed children or she's got some really badass grillz.)